Kabataang Makabayan, as the vanguard organization of the Filipino youth, should assist in the
achievement of an invincible unity of all national classes and forces to push further the struggle
for national and social liberation in all fields-economic, political, cultural, military-against the
leading enemy, U.S. imperialism, and against the persistent and pervasive main enemy, landlordism.
Both have frustrated the national democratic aspirations of the Philippine revolution of 1896 and
have made the suffering and exploitation of our people more complex and more severe.(Quoted
from the KM founding speech, SND 3rd ed.)